{"id":12055,"date":"2019-11-13T10:00:45","date_gmt":"2019-11-13T18:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/?p=12055"},"modified":"2019-11-12T20:23:35","modified_gmt":"2019-11-13T04:23:35","slug":"ten-reasons-why-impeachment-is-illegitimate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/ten-reasons-why-impeachment-is-illegitimate\/","title":{"rendered":"Ten Reasons Why Impeachment Is Illegitimate"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There are at least ten reasons why the Democratic impeachment \u201cinquiry\u201d is a euphemism for an ongoing coup attempt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>1) Impeachment 24\/7.&nbsp;<\/strong>The impeachment \u201cinquiry,\u201d supposedly prompted by the president\u2019s Ukrainian call, is simply the most recent in a long series of \u201ccoups\u201d that sought to overturn the 2016 election and thus preclude a 2020 reelection bid. The pattern gives away the game.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Usually the serial futile attempts to abort the Trump presidency \u2014 with the exception of the Mueller Dream-Team debacle \u2014 were each characterized by about a month of media-driven hysteria. We remember the voting machines fraud hoax, the initial 2017 impeachment effort, the attempt to warp the Electoral College voting, the Logan Act, the Emoluments Clause, the 25th Amendment, the McCabe-Rosenstein faux coup, and various Michael Avenatti\u2013Stormy Daniels\u2013Michael Cohen psychodramas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ukraine then is not unique, but simply another mini-coup attempt that follows the last failed coup and will presage another coup to take its place when it too fails to remove Trump.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>All of these efforts reflect a desperate effort both to reverse the 2016 election and to preclude a 2020 reelection effort, and, barring that, to drive down the Trump polls to the point of making him delegitimized. A week after Trump was elected, the&nbsp;<em>Wall Street Journal<\/em>&nbsp;reported that intelligence agencies were withholding information from their president. \u201cAnonymous,\u201d in a September 5, 2018,&nbsp;<em>New York Times<\/em>&nbsp;op-ed, bragged of an ongoing \u201cresistance\u201d of high-ranking government officials seeking to stonewall Trump. As soon as Trump was inaugurated, Washington lawyer and former Obama official Rosa Brooks was publicly raising the possibility of a military coup to remove him. Retired admiral William McRaven recently called for Trump to be gone \u2014 \u201cthe sooner, the better.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/2019\/11\/trump-impeachment-inquiry-illegitimate-ten-reasons-why\/\">Read the full article here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review There are at least ten reasons why the Democratic impeachment \u201cinquiry\u201d is a euphemism for an ongoing coup attempt. 1) Impeachment 24\/7.&nbsp;The impeachment \u201cinquiry,\u201d supposedly prompted by the president\u2019s Ukrainian call, is simply the most recent in a long series of \u201ccoups\u201d that sought to overturn the 2016 election [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p466Sb-38r","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":12796,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/an-impeachment-incitement\/","url_meta":{"origin":12055,"position":0},"title":"An Impeachment Incitement","author":"victorhanson","date":"January 21, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ American Greatness Donald Trump was impeached again on Wednesday, a week before leaving office in one of the great travesties of modern politics. 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